Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2011

It is hard to say just what patient-centered care is, but just about everyone agrees that we lack it. The meaningful use program has focused providers, vendors, and consumer advocates around some basic first steps.

This January the meaningful use program began, and with it launched a....

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2015

Accounts of mistaken identity, anecdotally at least, seem to happen to everyone at least once in the healthcare realm with both paper and electronic records. But in an increasingly electronic world employing electronic health record (EHR) systems and other health IT where patients ar....

Author: Briggs, Mark

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background


An initiative developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Direct Project was designed to help healthcare providers, departments of health, and payers nationwide communicate sec....

Author: Palkie, Brooke; Sandefer, Ryan; Low, Trina

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

INTRODUCTION

The College of St. Scholastica’s (CSS) Center for Healthcare Innovation, School of Nursing and the School of Health Science’s Department of Health Informatics and Information Management are collaborating with five rural Minnesota hospitals and their shared informa....

Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: April 27, 2009

[Federal Register: April 27, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 79)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 19006-19010] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr27ap09-11] ======================================================================= ------------------------------------....

Author: U.S. Federal Trade Commission

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: August 25, 2009

Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: April 20, 2009

[Federal Register: April 20, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 74)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 17914-17925] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr20ap09-14] ======================================================================= -------------------------------------------....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2009

This season Washington is like a healthcare cauldron, boiling away with bills and initiatives. Here’s a taste of a few that have come to the surface for HIM.
Healthcare Reform

As fall began, five congressional committees had released five different health reform bills. Pre....

Author: AHIMA; et al.

Source: AHIMA testimony and comments

Publication Date: February 21, 2014

AHIMA and other organizations express meaningful use concerns to Secretary of HHS

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2014

Sometimes one must call back into the past to understand the present and future.


When it comes to current challenges and successes with electronic health records (EHRs), the ongoing countrywide implementation mirrors that of another revolutionary wired device.